St. Louis ‘ Matt Shoukry was diagnosed with cancer in 2018. It was impossible to work a typical job, but he still had to pay the bills. So Matt decided to sell some items on eBay to meet ends with a lot of free time on his hands (and a lot of time spent on the couch, recovering). It was a low-stress way of earning money that didn’t require any real physical activity. His old VCR was one of the items Matt put up for sale. He thought it was a pretty outdated piece of technology, and he no longer had any real use.
Matt sold the VCR for $40 to an 86-year-old man from Phoenix. This particular buyer had never purchased anything off eBay in the past.
Matt expected to send the VCR to his buyer, then receive the usual eBay review and rating in return. But days after the transaction was finalized, he pulled an intriguing letter from his stack of mail. He took one look at the typed message and shouted for his girlfriend to join him; he knew she had to take a look.
Moments later, Matt and his girlfriend were both crying.
One man’s trash, after all…
